Hannah Thomas

@hannahthomasstudio

“Often shaped by ideas of the Absurd, my work is a clarion call for personal autonomy and freedom and embodies a plea for the release of one’s potency in a world that increasingly restricts, castigates, and confines. Ultimately, I make my art because it is the art I would like to see, I am trying to provide a visual counterpoint to what I see so much of around me.

 

My work has recently incorporated metaphors relating to the natural world and an awareness of one’s mortality, enriching the soup that feeds the process. I am moving into looser, more textural work, seeking to evoke the fibrous, sinewy essence of living tissue – human or otherwise – amidst slightly ethereal landscapes. The biomorphic shapes radiate a sense of predation or fecundity, or both. These dislocated and abstracted forms give the work a surreal mood which I find very expressive.

As someone who resists traditional representational painting, I aim to evoke a sense of the ‘id’ in each of us. My work reflects this raw, unconscious energy, where recognisable figurative contexts dissolve, and abstraction takes precedence.“